Ken Tanabe is a leader of future facing design teams and projects
Highlight
Developed, led, and expanded a new design and innovation team at Visa.
Selected employers
Community
Founder of Loving Day, a global holiday created as a design-driven social change project.
Classroom
Award-winning professor at Parsons School of Design in New York City
16
Years of teaching, graduate and undergraduate
8
Subjects taught in design and design management
3
Institutions for guest critique: Yale, SVA, Parsons
Collected Speaking
Speaker at 100+ venues on creating change through design with a focus on innovation and community
Costumes
A “Halloween hacker” featured in an art book alongside fashion icons Alexander McQueen and Jean Paul Gaultier
And in the press including Fast Company, CBC, Dezeen, and Print.
Music
A musician who enjoys writing and recording thoughtful indie synth-pop
Available on major digital music platforms.